Inconsistent color in PS Cs3 and Bridge CS3

woops, if u can't click on the image its because of the coding i messed up =(.

images stated respectively: http://www.eadwine.com/colour/colour1.jpg http://www.eadwine.com/colour/colour2.jpg http://www.eadwine.com/colour/colour3.jpg http://www.eadwine.com/colour/colour4.jpg http://www.eadwine.com/colour/colour6.jpg http://www.eadwine.com/colour/colour5.jpg

Do you do any profile conversion or assignment going from Bridge to Photoshop? It looks like you are displaying from two different color spaces. Sandy

Hi Sandy,

I calibrated my monitor with a device. And I used the monitor rgb profile from the device as my workspace RGB setting (Pic1). I saved and named it as customs

Under bridge CS3, I set the creative colour suite setting as "customs" which is what i saved and created in photoshop cs3.

However I was told not to use the calibrated monitor profile as my workspace rgb setting.

So I changed it to AdobeRgb setting and saved the entire settings as "customs" *I overwrite the first "customs"* and under bridge, under bridge preference -> advance, I unchecked the "Enable color management in bridge". That got me a close to 95% same color when I viewed the image opened in PS and image in Bridge side by side.

so my question is, how would I know whether my monitor on my mac is calibrated?

Your photoshop setting is wrong. In CS2, set workspace to either Adobe RGB or sRGB, preferrably Adobe RGB. That is your default workspace. Do not set it to the monitor profile.

Under Display preference, set to custom profile and use the EyeOne monitor profile you created.

In Photoshop, set the color management policy under RGB so if you open an image file that is not the default workspace (e.g. Adobe RGB), ask you what to do with the file. (sorry I don't have photoshop in front of me, don't know the exact setting).

Photoshop uses the monitor profile you generated to modify data it sends to the monitor so colors display correctly. Photoshop working space should be sRGB, Adobe RGB, Pro Photo RGB, etc. If you set Photoshop up as suggested by Michael Wang, it will flag images that have different profiles than the Photoshop working space and give you the option to convert to the working space or use the working space of the image.

The working space you select depends on what you plan to do with the image. Color gamut is wider on some working spaces. The three listed above, Pro Photo is the widest, followed by Adobe RGB and then the narrowest is sRGB. Photoshop is color managed, which means it reads the color space used in the image and converts data that is sent to the monitor so colors are displayed correctly - you will not see any difference on the monitor for the various color spaces when using Photoshop. Viewing software (Windows Picture & Fax Viewer, Web, etc) are not color managed, so you will see a difference for the various color spaces of the image. If you plan to view with non color managed software, you should use sRGB color space so colors appear correctly with non color managed software.

two major things rong in your settings;

1_never use your monitor profile for the RGB space. Should be Adobe RGB.

2_You shoult put color management at convert or preserve , yours is OFF everywhere what the point of having a calibrated screen, and wanting therefore a calibrated workflow if you put you your setting to OFF.

Buy a the REAL WORLD COLOR MANAGEMENT that will elp you understand color managed workflow,